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CFHS Rocket Club NASA Project

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We are the Cedar Falls High School Rocket Club and we are raising money to fund our project and our trip to Huntsville, AL this April.   We are currently working on a collaborative project with NASA in which we design a rocket and its scientific payload to fly up to 1 mile of altitude that we will then launch with NASA in Huntsville in April.
The students are designing a recovery system that is similar to the current design concepts that are being tested and will eventually be used by NASA and SpaceX to recover a particular portion of their rockets.

The students’ proposal was accepted by NASA in October, and since then the team had been working tirelessly to make their dreams a reality. Every 4-6 weeks the team is required to submit a 50-page report and give a 30-minute presentation to NASA engineers and experts. The NASA members then critique the students and their design and give them feedback/permission to continue their project.

This project is a big undertaking in so many ways, and along with their research and flying they also need to fully fund the entire project. The supplies and materials alone will total over $5000 in order to develop a sub-scale model, a full-scale rocket and all of the complex inner workings of their research payload. The trip to Huntsville will also cost $7k to $9k. The team is looking for the support of their friends, family, and anyone else’s who is willing to help make their dream a reality.

These students have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity in front of them and a chance to prove to the whole world that their hard work and enthusiasm has not gone unnoticed. Please consider helping these students to achieve their dreams of flying a rocket with NASA! Thank you for considering helping these students reach their goal.

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Zeb Nicholson
Organizer
Cedar Falls, IA

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